<p>The new <aclass="reference"href="http://planet.gentoo.org/">Planet Gentoo</a><aclass="footnote-reference"href="#id1"id="id2"name="id2">[1]</a> came online 10-Mar-2005, so this GLEP is now Final.</p>

In the event of a contributing Gentoo developer leaving the project, their log

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would be removed from the aggregation. If their log was hosted by ourselves,

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it would be closed. For this reason, some developers may choose to host their

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log elsewhere - this is not a problem and is left to the decision of the

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individual developers.</p>

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<p>It is true that the addition of the planet to our website collection would add

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yet another source of Gentoo information to our collection; our users and

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developers are already overwhelmed with IRC, mailing lists, forums, and the

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central website. In contrast, a lot of information is currently replicated

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over those mediums, but the planet would provide a taste of something new.

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Developers can choose their own topics and are free to write about things that

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perhaps would not fit into our existing communication mediums. Additionally,

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the planet will attempt to bring some existing content together by linking to

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recent commits, bug lists, and dev.gentoo.org webspace for each contributing

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developer.</p>

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<p>It has been suggested that the activity of the planet may be an issue:

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although a lot of activity would make the planet very successful, it may look

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bad on us as a whole if the planet is inactive.</p>

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<p><aclass="reference"href="mailto:alexander&#64;gentoo.org">Alexander Plank</a><aclass="footnote-reference"href="#id5"id="id7"name="id7">[3]</a> started a <aclass="reference"href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/20480">gentoo-dev discussion</a><aclass="footnote-reference"href="#id15"id="id16"name="id16">[6]</a> back in August regarding

<p>See <aclass="reference"href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/63160">Bug 63160</a><aclass="footnote-reference"href="#id19"id="id20"name="id20">[8]</a> for a template file mimicking the current gentoo.org design